A Comparative & Practical Global Study of the Para-Consciousness
Exploring the Boundaries of Divine Personality
by Acharya Kislay Panday*,
- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540
Volume 8, Issue No. 16, Oct 2014, Pages 0 - 0 (0)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
God is much more than a personality aspersonality is understood by the human mind; he is even far more than any possibleconcept of a super personality. But it is utterly futile to discuss suchincomprehensible concepts of divine personality with the minds of materialcreatures whose maximum concept of the reality of being consists in the ideaand ideal of personality. The material creature's highest possible concept ofthe Universal Creator is embraced within the spiritual ideals of the exaltedidea of divine personality. Therefore, although you may know that God must bemuch more than the human conception of personality, you equally well know thatthe Universal Father cannot possibly be anything less than an eternal,infinite, true, good, and beautiful personality.
KEYWORD
Para-Consciousness, Global Study, Personality, Divine Personality, Universal Creator, Concept, Reality of Being, Eternal, Infinite, True, Good, Beautiful
INTRODUCTION
All truth--material, philosophic, or spiritual--is both beautiful and good. All real beauty--material art or spiritual symmetry--is both true and good. All genuine goodness-- whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry--is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems.... (43.4) 2:7.11 Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are coordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co- ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher and divine levels.... (43.5) 2:7.12 The divine omnipotence is perfectly coordinated with the other attributes of the personality of God. The power of God is, ordinarily, only limited in its universe spiritual manifestation by three conditions or situations: I have dealt with Ken Wilber's reflections on evolution and entropy in several essays on Integral World. Briefly, Wilber has expressed doubts on several occasions about science's capability to explain the phenomena of biological complexity. Instead, he has
suggested some cosmic Force (of Eros) is pushing life from its simple beginnings to the most complex biological phenomenon on earth: the human brain. Apparently, he sees no other way this could have happened.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
The whole notion that the universe is 'running down' is ridiculous. ("Integral in Action with Ken Wilber", Conscious2, October 10th, 2015) In A Theory of Everything (2000) he presents an argument for this sweeping statement based on "simple observation": The Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that in the real world, disorder always increases. Yet simple observation tells us that, in the real world, life creates order everywhere: the universe is winding up, not down. The revolutionary new understanding found in "chaos" and "complexity" theories maintains that the physical universe actually has an inherent tendency to create order... (A Theory of Everything, p. x) Wilber hasn't engaged the areas of evolutionary theory or complexity science in much detail, except in his magnum opus Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995). In this volume (the first volume in a planned Kosmos-trilogy, which never saw the light of day but of which a "second volume" is in preparation) he pointed to chaos theory, complexity theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics—usually summarized as the "new sciences of complexity"—for evidence for his belief that "something other than chance is pushing the universe" (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, p. 26). He suggested that though part of the universe is "winding down", other parts, related to life and consciousness,
sciences of complexity—including General Systems Theory (Bertalanffy, Weiss), cybernetics (Wiener), nonequilibrium thermodynamics (Prigogine), cellular automata theory (von Neumann), catastrophe theory (Thom), autopoietic system theory (Maturana and Varela), dynamic systems theory (Shawn, Abraham), and chaos theories, among others. (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, p. 14) In Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, which was his bid for academic acceptance, Wilber expresses as his opinion that some aspects of the physical realm ("subtler and originally hidden aspects of the material realm") do show signs of increasing complexity, so the split between the physiosphere and the biosphere could be healed. In some situations, systems—"far-from-equilibrium" can occasionally make a jump to a higher level of complexity: The closing of the gap between the physiosphere and the biosphere came precisely in the rather recent discovery of those subtler and originally hidden aspects of the material realm that, under certain circumstances, propel themselves into states of higher order, higher complexity, and higher organization. In other words, under certain circumstances matter will "wind itself up" into states of higher order, as when the water running down a drain suddenly ceases to be chaotic a and forms a perfect funnel or whirlpool. Whenever material processes become very chaotic and "far from equilibrium," they tend under their own power to escape chaos by transforming it into a higher and more structured order—commonly called "order out of chaos."
CONCLUSION:
Enlightenment is the goal of human history, for the individual and for the race. The wonderful thing about enlightenment is that it is democratically available to everyone. We are evolving toward enlightenment, individually and collectively. God is drawing us all to His kingdom through a vast process involving all time and space. How can that transcendent wisdom, that visionary insight of the Perennial Philosophy/Timeless Wisdom/Primordial Tradition be put to work effectively? How can it be made practical around the world? How can the One who created us all and embraces us all be recognized as the basis for worldwide sister-and-brotherhood? How can human society be changed from its traditional divisions and divisiveness to a unified and universal community? How can patriotism--the national form of love of family--be extended to the entire family of Man? How can we develop a politics of enlightenment or God-realization for all humanity? The answer is simple: America. The spiritual foundations of America are wholly congruent with the Perennial Philosophy/Timeless Wisdom/Primordial Tradition. They are eternal and immutable because
political means devised so far to create societal conditions for nurturing, and even hastening, human evolution to enlightenment.
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